flash.exe files

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 30 15:50:41 UTC 2010


On 11/30/10 1:04 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> Hi, List!
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no way to run windows exe flash
> movies under linux without wine? I have a foreign language video
> tutorial packaged for windows users. On the course dvd there's all data
> (video lessons, images and texts in xml format). Testing it under
> VirtualBox windoze xp reveals that main executable (start.exe) opening
> flash player with different menus and buttons. Without that it's
> difficult to organize all that stuff in right order. However performance
> of video under VirtualBox is very poor. And I don't want to install wine
> on my machine. It would be a big hole in security. So, any suggestions?
> TIA
Wine is no less secure than any other program you run on your Linux box 
in USER space.  However, the project highly recommends against running 
as a super-user.

You might want to give it a go since you proved the program is somewhat 
secure.

James McKenzie



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